nipple. Cora gasped as her back arched off the bed and liquid gushed between her thighs.
The vampire looked up with a wicked grin. “I think I found the spot.”
He gripped her thighs, pulling them apart so he could slide down between them. Cora missed his touch on her breasts for only a second before his amazing mouth lapped at the apex of her femininity.
“Oh shit,” Cora moaned as he sucked and nibbled. She didn’t know what the fuck else he was doing but she’d give him anything if he kept it up for the next thousand years. Wave after wave, the orgasms came fast and furious until she was drained, and muscles she didn’t know she had ached from clenching.
“Please,” she sobbed. “I can’t take any more.” Her body was too sensitive to the touch and her nerves tingled with sensation.
“Shh, I’ve got you.” Relief went through her when he finally lifted his mouth. She barely noted his body sliding up across hers before he lifted her legs and pushed inside.
Her body, primed beyond belief by his previous attention, clamped down on him as another orgasm ripped through her.
“Yes,” he moaned. He moved inside her with rough, needy strokes as if he were already driven to the brink by the taste and feel of her. “I’m so close.”
“Ahhh,” she cried. Was it possible for a woman to have this many orgasms and not die of dehydration?
Basil laughed against her throat. “You are the most infuriating woman.”
Cora didn’t get the chance to reply because at that moment he plunged his fangs into her throat. She jolted with a powerful orgasm as he drank from her vein. Completely exhausted, her body shut down and she welcomed the blackness.
Basil licked the wound, pleased when it healed instantaneously. The transference had worked. As much as he enjoyed going down on her, there was a method to his lovemaking. At the moment of penetration she’d been too far gone to insist he wear a condom. When his semen had entered her system it had started her transformation towards creating a viable environment for his seed. She wouldn’t get pregnant, not this time—he wasn’t that much of a bastard. He’d only prepared her for giving birth to the next set of royals. True vampire children to lead the new generation of vampire kind and rebuild his family’s dynasty.
Smiling, he left the bed to clean up and returned to wipe her down so she wouldn’t feel sticky in the morning. Tomorrow he would move her into his suite. Now that they were bonded, she would need to live with him.
Feeling indulgent, he stroked her hair back from her face. “I’ll even let you organise a wedding if you’d like,” he whispered to the still form.
He slid back into bed and snuggled up with his mate. Everything would be fine now. Cora was his.
* * * *
“Ow.” Basil sat up in bed clutching his stomach. “You hit me.” He glared at the hellion who’d taken over his mate’s body. Obviously a doppelganger had appeared in the night and replaced his sweet Cora with this angry creature.
“You screwed me without protection.” She punched him again.
“Stop that. You aren’t pregnant.” He read her concerns easily since she was practically announcing them to the world. Hell, the entire compound probably knew that she was mad at him.
“And you can ensure that!”
“Yes, I can.” His calm reassurance took the edge off her ire.
“What about disease?”
“Vampires can’t get disease or carry it.”
“Okay, then. I won’t stab you.”
“Thank you.” Basil hoped he sounded appreciative but the suspicious glance she gave him said he lacked the proper degree of humility. Her stomach rumbled, reminding the vampire that although he could subsist on blood, his human mate wasn’t so lucky.
“Come, go take a shower and get dressed and I’ll go get you some food.”
She gave him a relieved smile, whether it was because she wanted a shower or just his absence, he wasn’t sure. Scanning her mind, he was surprised to